Is there a way to populate an InDesign document with Pantone colors from a .csv document?

Thanks so much Loic! I am still new to using scripts within InDesign. How would I go about getting this to function?

Hi,

Here is some code you may want to play with

Array.prototype.contains =  function ( object )

{

  var i = 0, n = this.length;

  for ( i = 0 ; i < n ; i++ )

  {

  if ( this === object )

  {

  return true;

  }

  }

  return false;

}

function createLabels() {

  var filterFunction = function(file)

  {

  return /\.csv$/.test ( file.name );

  }

  var f = File.openDialog("Please select CSV Files…", filterFunction);

  var sep = "\t";

  var n = 0;

  var headers = [];

  var rows = [], row = [];

  var doc, m, pw,pb,ph, np, tf, tfo;

  var p;

  if ( !f) { return; }

  f.open("r");

  headers = f.readln().split(sep);

  while ( !f.eof ){

  row = f.readln().split(sep);

  row.length>1 && rows [ rows.length ]  = {contents:row[0], colorName:row[1]};

  }

  n = rows.length;

  if ( !n ) {

  alert("No data");

  return;

  }

  doc = app.documents.add();

  doc.documentPreferences.facingPages = false;

  m = doc.pages[0].marginPreferences;

  pb = doc.pages[0].bounds;

  while (n--) {

  row = rows;

  np = doc.pages.add();

  doc.importAdobeSwatchbookSpotColor ( row.colorName );

  tfo = {

  geometricBounds:[pb[0]+m.top, pb[1]+m.right, pb[2]-m.bottom, pb[3]-m.left],

  contents:row.contents,

  fillColor:doc.colors.itemByName ( row.colorName ),

  }

  tf = np.textFrames.add(tfo);

  }

  doc.pages[0].remove();

}

createLabels();

Sorry for not using the highlighting code option but it wasn't displaying the whole stuff :\

Loic

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